[Archived] Looks Like The Board Wont Be Freeing Much Cash Again.

[BuckyRover]

Which won't be very good if we go down.

What can be done about the tightened purse strings? Perhaps they can be loosened?

I'm not advocating we go silly, but equally, this is a bit too far the other way.

We are in the top half of the table.

If we were bottom of the league and playing without confidence I would be inclined to agree with you.

But we aren't, so at present there is nothing to fret about

Also, every team we have beaten this season (bar Grimsby) has spent more money than us? What does that tell you?

[thenodrog]

Er, hold on a second.

I think there's a genuine point here that the purse strings have been tightened even further since the days of Souness and Hughes.

I don't expect anyone of the calibre of andy Cole or Craig Bellamy to be signing for us any time soon.

Anybody spotted the irony in the fact that Mark Hughes will likely soon be earning more than we can spend on players!

[broadsword]

i repeat - what has he said that souness and hughes didnt say before him?

It isn't necessarily what is said, it's what he does.

if he goes out next summer and makes a major signing, I'll take it all back.

[den]

You have changed your tune somewhat. Previously it was Ince's fault we didn't sign a quality right winger, now you are insinuating that it is the board that has prevented this (and will continue to do so).

Wish we had a "shakes head" smiley. All I've done here is put a link to the LT article, - for discussion.

I assume you can quote me about the board preventing the signing of a right winger?

[bubblerrovers]

Some of the quotes from Ince and Williams makes me think they would be happier if we where in the championship, As people have pointed out attendences don't bring in the majority of money a club gets anymore. The Club should be making millions around the world as most other teams do, the reason we don't must fall on the chairmans head,

[BuckyRover]

Looks Like The Board Wont Be Freeing Much Cash Again.

I wouldn't imagine that it's a PR stunt, Le Chuck. That's the easy way to explain Ince's comments, without slating the club.

I would guess that the Ince summing up of the situation is fairly accurate.

You might be right Darth Paul. There again, - Ince [and hughes] might be telling the truth. I know where my money would be.

I am fairly confident that in the quotes above you are insinuating that the board have no money and thus couldn't sanction a large purchase.

Therefore if you believe we have no money, then why on other threads have you blamed Ince for not signing a "quality" right winger.

You OBVIOUSLY believe the board aren't providing any money so how could Ince buy a right winger?

[den]

None of that shows that I thought the board prevented Ince buying a right winger. For the record, I don't think they did.

[roversmum]

From all the reports I have seen, the targeted right winger didn't want to come. Personally, I feel if that was his attitude, we are better off without him. Now, if the situation continues that we don't sign one following the next transfer window, I'd feel there was more cause for worry. We don't seem to be short on getting chances on goal, Bentley or not, it's the finishing that is letting us down at the moment.

[speeeeeeedie]

Here we go again.

Rovers do not have a moneybags owner. Rovers do not get 50,000 a week on. Rovers are in a region blighted by unemployment and limited opportunities. Why do people think the club has to spend daft money on players? Rovers do not have it, simple. Blackburn Rovers are an overachieving club with a great history, plying their trade frugally in an increasingly unpredicatable market. I'd certainly rather have it this way than the comedy at Newcastle, the some day soon circus at City, Red Rom's roubles at Chelsea, the debt factories of Liverpool and Utd, plus the rest of the Premier clubs hanging by a thread. There are very few clubs as stable as us.

Some people are never happy.

[LDRover]

Why is it that when we buy a player the figure spent always gets bumped up due to wages yet if we sell a player under contract that never gets shown as part of the selling price? Surely that money is budgeted for so is a relevant saving and as such is money freed up?

Am I missing something?

[LeChuck]

One factor being over-looked is that whilst everyone is aware the club will have £4m set aside to make the Carlos signing permanent, there may well also be a deal to do to sign Danny Simpson which could be tying up another £4m or so.

After seeing Rafael's performance at full back the other night you have to think Simpson's long-term future lies away from Old Trafford.

The fee shouldn't be anywhere near £4 million though. Phil Bardsley was a far more established player than Simpson and he went for peanuts. Anything more than £2 million and we'll have been robbed.

[den]

Here we go again.

Rovers do not have a moneybags owner. Rovers do not get 50,000 a week on. Rovers are in a region blighted by unemployment and limited opportunities. Why do people think the club has to spend daft money on players? Rovers do not have it, simple. Blackburn Rovers are an overachieving club with a great history, plying their trade frugally in an increasingly unpredicatable market. I'd certainly rather have it this way than the comedy at Newcastle, the some day soon circus at City, Red Rom's roubles at Chelsea, the debt factories of Liverpool and Utd, plus the rest of the Premier clubs hanging by a thread. There are very few clubs as stable as us.

Some people are never happy.

You, by the sounds of it Speeeeeeeeedie.

BTW, the way some people are talking, we've never had any money. [it's becoming a very touchy site nowadays.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

This season could see the club for possibly the first time in its 135 yr history be in a financial situation where it is capable of 'washing its own face'..... a sound proposition that Jack Walker always envisaged for the club.

Prudent spending on young,hungry talent at bargain prices is the way to go especially in the current financial climate,we want NO Leeds Utd repeat here ta very much.We have a manager in Ince who is clearly prepared to give youth its chance which must be seen as a plus.

The club is stable on all levels and is holding its own in the top ten of the supposed best league in the world.Achieve the most for the least outlay surely is the right thinking for a club like Rovers?

Lets keep our powder dry because I have a very bad feeling that in the not too distant future football will go belly up in this country and many a club will sadly go to the wall...lets make sure we're not one of them.

[Jonnolad]

Some of the quotes from Ince and Williams makes me think they would be happier if we where in the championship, As people have pointed out attendences don't bring in the majority of money a club gets anymore. The Club should be making millions around the world as most other teams do, the reason we don't must fall on the chairmans head,

Apart from the obvious candidates (Man U, Liverpool etc) most other teams do not make millions around the world (apart from TV revenue which is shared by all). What makes you think Villa or Sunderland for example or anyone outside the top 4 make millions around the world?

[CrazyIvan]

Some of the quotes from Ince and Williams makes me think they would be happier if we where in the championship, As people have pointed out attendences don't bring in the majority of money a club gets anymore. The Club should be making millions around the world as most other teams do, the reason we don't must fall on the chairmans head,

Can you post the quotes where they've indicated this please?

[JAL]

This season could see the club for possibly the first time in its 135 yr history be in a financial situation where it is capable of 'washing its own face'..... a sound proposition that Jack Walker always envisaged for the club.

Prudent spending on young,hungry talent at bargain prices is the way to go especially in the current financial climate,we want NO Leeds Utd repeat here ta very much.We have a manager in Ince who is clearly prepared to give youth its chance which must be seen as a plus.

The club is stable on all levels and is holding its own in the top ten of the supposed best league in the world.Achieve the most for the least outlay surely is the right thinking for a club like Rovers?

Lets keep our powder dry because I have a very bad feeling that in the not too distant future football will go belly up in this country and many a club will sadly go to the wall...lets make sure we're not one of them.

Good post Simon Garners 194, prudent spending on young, hungry talent at bargain prices seems to roll out the vision for Rovers from many of us for the coming years.

Plus isnt the Telegraph journalist whose hashed this piece to together just looking for a cheap reaction for his rag by printing this yet more negative shyte from our so called local rag.

Rovers do seem to have lost all of the local media wether it be Radio or newspaper, this surely is something that has to be addressed.